The harvest truly is plenteous. A waving field of golden grain invites many reapers and demands haste. By the reference to the harvest here, it means that the multitude of people that flocked to his ministry was great. The people expected the Messiah. They were prepared to receive the gospel; but the laborers were few. Therefore, it was instructed to the people to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth reapers, especially to the lost. God is the proprietor of the great harvest of the world, and he only can send people to gather it in.
People still need to send, to make a way for others to go. And we all need to pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest. So, prayer is the essential first step in reaching the lost. It’s a joining of our pleading with the compassion of Christ. Are our hearts burdened for the lost? If so, then we must pray. If not, we must pray even more, that God would give us the compassion and concern for those that are separated from the Good Shepherd.
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